In the Name of Love

[Shi Wenli’s book, April’s Clear Skies, is available to follow in my author profile]

[Blurb]:

Shi Miao and Min Ting moved in together only seven months after registering their marriage. By then, they still weren’t particularly close.

Her coworkers were curious. How had a woman from an ordinary family married into Beijing’s elite, and how had she made Min Ting insist on marrying her?

There was no insistence on marrying her. They had married because it was convenient, not out of love.

Before their blind date, her only connection to Min Ting was that she had kissed him during a game of truth or dare a few years earlier.

But it had been so long ago, and they hadn’t known each other then, so he didn’t remember her.

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Min Ting had only one requirement for his future wife: she must not love him.

He had no feelings to offer her either. Marriage was simply a way to appease his family.

They moved into their marital home six months after registering their marriage. He had a business dinner that night and didn’t get home until late. Shi Miao had fallen asleep on the living room sofa. She must have been dreaming about something sad. Usually so cool-headed and rational, she was actually sobbing in her sleep.

Min Ting called softly, “Shi Miao.”

Shi Miao didn’t wake. Tears glistened at the corners of her eyes.

After hesitating for a moment, he drew her into his arms and comforted her for a long time.

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Another domineering CEO romance.

Cool, aloof heroine VS untouchable, high-status hero

A sister-obsessed hero meets a brother-obsessed heroine

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Updates every night at eight.

~﹡~﹡~﹡ [.Next: The Blue Windmill by Meng Xiao Er.]﹡~﹡~﹡~﹡~﹡~*~﹡~﹡~﹡~

[Blurb]:

Zhong Yi saw Zhou Shiyi again at the celebration banquet for an art exhibition. It all felt like a lifetime ago. She was now working for the exhibition’s organizers, while Zhou Shiyi had come to support the artist. He was impeccably refined and cool, and his arrival caused quite a stir. He was immediately surrounded, like a star among admirers.

She saw him, but he didn’t see her.

A coworker clung to her arm and whispered, “That’s Zhou Shiyi, the fourth son of the Zhou family.”

Zhong Yi only smiled and said nothing.

She knew Zhou Shiyi well. They had once been lovers, but they had lost touch after their breakup.

Just last week, her father had arranged a marriage match for her. It was Zhou Shiyi, and their families had already set a wedding date.

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Rekindled romance.

Happy ending

~﹡~﹡~﹡ [.A friend’s new book: Because the Stars Twinkle by Cheng Momo.]﹡~﹡~﹡~﹡~﹡~*~﹡~﹡~﹡~

Cheng Jizhou was born into an illustrious family and had amassed a fortune at a young age. Countless people inside and outside their social circle pursued him, but every one of them was rejected.

Over time, everyone knew he was an untouchable, lofty beauty, one who could only be admired from afar and was nearly impossible to win over.

But only Cheng Jizhou’s childhood friends knew that he had a special childhood sweetheart whom he doted on, as if she might break if he held her too tightly.

His friends couldn’t help asking, “What exactly is going on between you two?”

After a brief silence, Cheng Jizhou warned them coolly, “Don’t start. She’s my little sister.”

His friends: “...” Yeah, sure. Do you really expect us to believe that?

On a sunny day two years later, all his friends received the same freshly filmed video on their phones.

On a school campus in the afternoon, Cheng Jizhou, wearing a perfectly tailored suit, squeezed among a crowd of uniform-clad students, all fighting over the only microphone.

“I’m Cheng Jizhou from Class 1, Grade 10.” His voice rang across the campus. “Xin Tong from Class 3, Grade 16, I like you.”

Amid the cheering, the usually proud man dropped to one knee and gazed earnestly at the girl he had doted on since childhood. “May I like you?”

His friends: “...” Wait, that’s the little sister you were talking about?

Theme: Building a marriage in the name of love